1/12
A starred Kirkus review of SUPREME POWER: "A thorough and thoroughly smart rendering of a dramatic Constitutional showdown"
1/10/10
DRIVE debuts on the WSJ and NYTBR lists. Hear Dan Pink on NPR's Morning Edition
12/17
Sports Illustrated names HOW SOCCER EXPLAINS THE WORLD by Frank Foer one of 5 Most Influential Books of the Decade
12/14
Washington Post Book World's "Best Books of 2009" include: THE FATAL STRAIN, THE REBELLION OF RONALD REAGAN, IN FED WE TRUST, THE HAWK AND THE DOVE, 1959, THE FOURTH PART OF THE WORLD, ON HALLOWED GROUND
12/9
THE INCREMENT by David Ignatius named by the St. Louis Post Dispatch as One of the Best Thrillers of 2009
CSM's Best Books of 2009 includes Barbara Bradley Hagerty's FINGERPRINTS OF GOD
12/2
THE HAWK AND THE DOVE seriously considered in the NY Review of Books
IN FED WE TRUST one of NYT's Michiko Kakutani's Top 10 Books of 2009; and a finalist for Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award
Bob Wright #27 on Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers
11/10
"Lombardi" Heads to Broadway
Rave reviews for Bob Poole's book on Arlington Cemetery, ON HALLOWED GROUND, in the Washington Post, USA TODAY, and Wall Street Journal
Toby Lester's FOURTH PART OF THE WORLD a "must read" from the Sunday Times of London;11/10
hear this great interview on NPR's On Point. Learn more about the book--and the map that gave America its name--here
11/2
Nick Thompson, author of THE HAWK AND THE DOVE, appears on the Colbert Report to talk about the personalities inside the Cold War
9/18
IN FED WE TRUST named a Shortlist Finalist for Goldman Sachs/Financial Times Business Book Prize.
9/14
This weekend: Nick Thompson profiled in the daily NYT, reviewed in Book World and NYTBR. IN FED WE TRUST reviewed in The Economist
9/1
Dan Pink fires up TED on "the surprising science of motivation"
8/26
Listen to Jim Morone on NPR's Morning Edition talking about HEART OF POWER, co-authored with David Blumenthal. 9/6 udate: front-page review in NYTBR
8/12
IN FED WE TRUST launches at #11 on the NYT list; EVOLUTION OF GOD remains strong at #25
8/10THE FOURTH PART OF THE WORLD (coming in November) named a History Book Club selection and a Discover/Barnes & Noble pick for 2009
7/23
Three titles on Politics & Prose list, including #1 and #2
THE WAXMAN REPORT a Washington Post and LA Times bestseller
7/21
From the NYT review of IN FED WE TRUST: "essential, lucid—and, it turns out, riveting"
7/14
NPR's Diane Rehm interviews Vin Cannato on July 5, Henry Waxman on July 7, Christian Davenport on July 9, Fred Kaplan on July 14, and Bob Wright on July 15
6/29/09
50 Books To Read Right Now, in Newsweek: #3 PRISONER OF THE STATE; #4 THE BIG SWITCH
6/28/09
THE EVOLUTION OF GOD earns a front-page rave in The NYT Book Review
6/13/09
A rave for AMERICAN PASSAGE in the WSJ
6/2/09
Katty Kay on The Colbert Report and Claire Shipman on Good Morning America
5/31/09
Deborah Solomon Questions Robert Wright on "Evolutionary Theology" in the NYT Magazine
5/31/09
Fred Kaplan's 1959 serialized and illustrated in NY Magazine
5/28/09
Womenomics (a NYT bestseller as of June 28) serialized in Business Week
5/27/09
FINGERPRINTS OF GOD rises up The New York Times Bestseller List, as do THE INCREMENT and A WHOLE NEW MIND
5/24/09
Chris Davenport's story of vets coming home is featured in the Washington Post Magazine and excerpted from AS YOU WERE: To War and Back with the Black Hawk Battalion
5/14/09
* PRISONER OF THE STATE: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang makes front-page headlines worldwide
4/27/09
* Author of the classic history of the 1918 pandemic John Barry asks: "Where Will the Swine Flu Go Next?"
4/20/09
* Eugene Robinson of The Washington Post has won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. His book on race will be published by Doubleday next year
4/2/09
* Ross Douthat has been named an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times
3/31/09
* Judy Pasternak has won the $30,000 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for YELLOW DIRT: The Betrayal of the Navajos (to be published in 2010 by Free Press)
3/25/09
* From PW review of Barbara Bradley Hagerty's FINGERPRINTS OF GOD: "The real beauty of this book lies in watching Hagerty gracefully balance her own trust in faith and science."
3/19/09
* Vin Cannato's history of Ellis Island, AMERICAN PASSAGE, has been chosen as a History Book Club Selection
3/18/09
* Nicholas Kristof cites Bill Bishop's THE BIG SORT as "one of last year's most fascinating books"
3/12/09
* Dan Pink's A WHOLE NEW MIND returns to the New York Times bestseller list
3/10/09
* First advance review of THE INCREMENT by David Ignatius: "The plot grabs everything in its path like a snowball rolling down a hill...A thinking person’s thriller with a timely take on recent international politics." --Kirkus Reviews
3/3/09
* Congrats to Michael Dobbs whose book ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT has been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History
2/2/09
* ABC News Supreme Court reporter Jan Crawford Greenburg reports on the "impressive and gripping" history of THE GREAT DECISION, by Cliff Sloan and David McKean. "Read it," she says, "not just to learn about Marbury v. Madison, but to be transported back to the city of Washington in the early 1800's."
2/13/09
* Vanity Fair has posted its serialization of James Mann's soon-to-be-published book, THE REBELLION OF RONALD REAGAN (Viking)
2/1/09
* The New York Times Magazine asks J.D. Trout, Professor of Philosophy at Loyola, about THE EMPATHY GAP in this lively Q&A
1/30/09
* The American Library Association named THE ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY BUNKO: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need one of "2009 Great Graphic Novels for Teens"
1/16/09
* Legendary investor Jack Bogle laments the end of the "ownership society" in this video interview with Steve Forbes
1/6/09
* "You may never have heard of Daemon author Leinad Zeraus, but get ready to hear a lot about Daemon author Daniel Suarez." That's the lead to today's USA Today story about one of the most highly-anticipated thrillers of the new year. DAEMON has been licensed to 15 countries and film rights have been sold to DreamWorks.
1/5/09
* December is the time of year media cite the "best books of the year" and among the titles receiving such praise were Fred Kaplan's DAYDREAM BELIEVERS (Washington Post), Michael Dobbs' ONE MINUTE TO MIDNIGHT and Bill Bishop's THE BIG SORT (New York Times Book Review), and Dan Pink's THE ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY BUNKO (Miami Herald),
* THE GREAT DECISION, the story of the landmark case of Marbury v. Madison, by Cliff Sloan and David McKean has been named a Main Selection of the History Book Club.
* Jim Mann's history of the end of the Cold War, THE REBELLION OF RONALD REAGAN, will be serialized in the March issue of Vanity Fair. Jim has just reupped with his longtime publisher Viking for a new book on the making of President-elect Obama's foreign policy.